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This is leadership?

The current health crisis gripping our nation has me wondering if it could mirror a terrorist biological attack. If so, where has our state preparedness been in the last ten or more years?

Sure, we have quarantined and shut down many services, but so have many more states. Gov. Inslee does what has become the “go to” for the Democratic Party: Whine, complain, and by all means blame everyone else for your own shortcomings. What does Inslee think he will accomplish by butting heads with Trump? Absolutely nothing in a positive vein. He even tries to be a comedian.

The truth is we will need the feds to aid the people in the state of Washington and Trump has a long memory. Even the governor of California realized he has to work with the president and what did it get him? A hospital ship that could have been sent to the Puget Sound.

Under Inslee’s leadership we will be be in direct competition with Michigan to see who occupies the end of the line. God bless us all.

Robert Johnson

Spokane

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